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The trailer for the BBC adaptation of The City & The City is now out. Link here. The show is airing quote soon, on April 6th.
I have barely seen any talk about this on the internet, seems like not many people are aware of it so far. TC&TC is one of my favourite Mieville books. So I'm hyped but also anxious - it's not an easy story to adapt to screen. Here's to hoping that they will to do it justice.

So happy to have some news from that! I was afraid it might be stuck in development hell. Very curious to see how they are going to bring this to the screen.
I've actually been enjoying Mieville's more recent work a lot - I think Embassytown is my favourite book of his - but yeah, I hope he writes another big genre book. His short story collection and novella's were great but haven't fully scratched my Mieville itch.

Im pretty sure GRRM also doesn't want people to do this. For the video interview where he read the first part of Vic 1, it's somewhat inevitable that someone somewhere will write it down. But at live readings I think he always asks people not to record/transcribe. Summary notes are acceptable though.

[quote name='Ibsen's Crawfish' post='1441733' date='Jul 16 2008, 01.21']Hum. That sample is way shorter than a usual chapter, yet the begining and ending do look like the real ones. I wonder what is missing ? Description ? That would make a lot of description.
Maybe a flashback/account of the immediate afterfall of Winterfell. Like Theon's arrival to the Dreadfort.[/quote]
Do you see that as a bad sign? I thought a lot of the aFfC chapters were unnecessarily long, a lot of them were 20 pages or longer. I think it's a good thing that there's some short chapters in aDwD too, at the very least it is a sign that he's still able to write about something without it taking 20 pages.
And a lot of chapters in aGoT were quite short too (the chapter of Bran's awakening is like 5 pages long).
On-topic, I thought this chapter was the worst of the 4 spoiler chapters that have been online and readable so far, but it's still pretty awesome. I sort of lost track of the whole situation in the north, though. Is he going to war with the Ironborn in Moat cailin and Deepwood? Or is he going to try and fight Stannis? Is he already aware of Stannis at this point?